According to Richard Cureton, the end of this poem's first stanza "has been more closely scrutinized and extensively analyzed than any other single phrase in English literature." Edith Everson claims that its two main characters "are the only ones in the community who are living in the proper sense." When the title character dies, his lover "stooped to kiss his face." This
According to Richard Cureton, the end of this poem's first stanza "has been more closely scrutinized and extensively analyzed than any other single phrase in English literature." Edith Everson claims that its two main characters "are the only ones in the community who are living in the proper sense." When the title character dies, his lover "stooped to kiss his face." This poem describes how "women and men … reaped their sowing and went their came," and how the title character "sang his didn't" and "danced his did." No-one is buried alongside the title character in, for 10 points, what E.E. Cummings poem, which follows the lives of the residents of a nameless town?
According to Richard Cureton, the end of this poem's first stanza "has been more closely scrutinized and extensively analyzed than any other single phrase in English literature.
“{anyone lived} in a {pretty} how town”